Red Bank man gets 15 years for attemped killing of ex-girlfriend

Google MapsA man was sentenced today to 15-years in prison in the knife attack of the mother of his child outside an elementary school

RED BANK &mdash A Red Bank man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a knife attack on his ex-girlfriend at their daughter’s elementary school.

Jorge Vargas-Mancilla, 24, of Red Bank, was sentenced for first degree attempted murder, Monmouth County acting prosecutor Pete Warshaw said in a statement.

Vargas-Mancilla also was sentenced to a concurrent four-term term for assaulting the school principal and a guidance counselor during the attack Dec 4, 2008. Vargas-Mancilla pleaded guilty to the charges, said Warshaw said.

That morning, Vargas-Mancilla waited for his ex-girlfriend, 21, and their five-year-old daughter to arrive at the Red Bank Primary School, according to the prosecutor’s office.

School officials had escorted him to the principal’s office because he was acting suspiciously. Then the ex-girlfriend arrived and dropped off their daughter, Warshaw stated.

After the pair walked out of the building together Red Bank police officers were called to the scene, he said.

When police arrived, the principal was trying to pull the man, who was crying and yelling, off the woman. She was bleeding profusely from stab wounds to her head, neck, back and hands, Warshaw said.

Vargas-Mancilla had stabbed her with a long, kitchen knife, and when the guidance counselor and school principal approached, he swung the knife at them, Warshaw said.

The guidance counselor then kicked Vargas-Mancilla in the back and the school principal disarmed him, according to the investigation.

The ex-girlfriend underwent numerous surgeries for her injuries.

Vargas-Mancilla will serve a mandatory minimum of 12 years, nine months and three days for his crimes, Warshaw stated.